The 2026 World Junior Ice Hockey Championship Division I were two international under-20 ice hockey tournaments organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation. Division I A represents the second tier and Division I B the third tier of the IIHF World Junior Championship. For each tier, the first-placed team was promoted to the next higher tier, while the last-placed team was relegated to the next lower tier.

To be eligible as a junior player in these tournaments, a player couldn't be born earlier than 2006.

Division I A

The Division I A tournament was played in Bled, Slovenia, from 7 to 13 December 2025.Division I A official website, www.iihf.comDivision I A statistics, stats.iihf.com

Participating teams TeamQualification placed 10th in Top Division last year and were relegatedplaced 2nd in Division I A last yearplaced 3rd in Division I A last year (hosts)placed 4th in Division I A last yearplaced 5th in Division I A last yearplaced 1st in Division I B last year and were promoted

Standings

Results All times are local, CET (UTC+1).

Statistics Top 10 scorers PosPlayerCountryGPGAPts+/–PIM 1 Korney Korneyev 5 6 6 12 +7 2 2 Konstantin Hutzinger 5 5 7 12 +2 2 3 Niklas Aaram Olsen 5 6 4 10 +4 2 4 Tinus Luc Koblar 5 5 5 10 +10 12 4 Jorgen Myhre 5 5 5 10 +7 4 6 Mikkel Eriksen 5 3 7 10 +5 2 6 Elias Vatne 5 3 7 10 +8 4 8 Johannes Neumann 5 3 6 9 –1 4 8 Alisher Sarkenov 5 3 6 9 0 6 10 Vasily Zelenov 5 2 7 9 +1 20 GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders (minimum 40% team's total ice time)

PosPlayerCountryTOIGASv%GAASO 1 Albert Englund 210:24 7 92.22 2.00 0 2 Dmitriy Ryashin 181:26 12 89.83 3.97 0 3 Alexander Levshyn 208:20 14 87.83 4.03 0 4 Gal Hebar 157:07 11 87.36 4.20 0 5 Guillaume Schoch 164:00 14 86.41 5.12 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF

Best Players Selected by the Directorate Goaltender: Albert Englund Defenceman: Jan Goličič Forward: Tinus Luc Koblar

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Division I B

The Division I B tournament was played in Milan, Italy, from 8 to 14 December 2025.Division I B official website, www.iihf.comDivision I B statistics, stats.iihf.com

Participating teams TeamQualification placed 6th in Division I A last year and were relegatedplaced 2nd in Division I B last year (hosts)placed 3rd in Division I B last yearplaced 4th in Division I B last yearplaced 5th in Division I B last yearplaced 1st in Division II A last year and were promoted

Standings

Results All times are local, CET (UTC+1).

Statistics Top 10 scorers PosPlayerCountryGPGAPts+/–PIM 1 David Timofejev 5 7 5 12 +6 2 2 Maksim Burkov 5 3 6 9 +5 4 3 Ferenc Laskawy 5 5 3 8 +5 6 4 Domán Szongoth 5 3 4 7 +4 4 5 Nikita Antonov 5 1 5 6 +5 2 5 Balint Lobenwein 5 1 5 6 +6 0 7 Danielius Čečekovas 5 3 2 5 +2 0 8 Ryota Seki 5 1 4 5 –1 0 9 Kolos Fehér 5 4 0 4 +7 0 10 Jacopo de Luca 5 3 1 4 0 0 10 Dovydas Jukna 5 3 1 4 +4 2 10 Saishiro Nakaya 5 3 1 4 –1 0 GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = P Plus–minus; PIM = Penalties In Minutes Source: IIHF

Goaltending leaders (minimum 40% team's total ice time)

PosPlayerCountryTOIGASv%GAASO 1 Igor Tyczyński 181:32 6 93.02 1.98 0 2 Benedek Gyulai 302:32 9 92.50 1.78 1 3 Sazuku Kudo 176:48 7 91.67 2.38 0 4 Daniil Cepov 238:36 8 90.00 2.01 1 5 Simon Sildre 302:44 13 89.84 2.58 0 TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts Source: IIHF

Best Players Selected by the Directorate Goaltender: Igor Tyczyński Defenceman: Daniil Kovalenko Forward: Maksim Burkov

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References

External links Official website of IIHF